Apparatus for the treatment of refractory water.



J. SUHNEIBLE APPARATUS FOR THE TREATMENT OF REFRACTORY WATER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 5, 1907.

Patented N0v.3,1908.

Inventor:

. J. SGHNEIBLE. I APPARATUS T011 THE TREATMENT OF REFRACTORY WATER.

APPLIOATIOH FILED APB. 6, 1907.

Paitented NOV.3,1908.

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Inventor:

n m I I I I I I NIT'D' STATS a JOSEPH soHNEIBLE, OF WEEHAWKEN, NEW JERSEY.

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APPARATUS FOR THE TREATMENT REFRACTORY WATER.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH SCHNEIBLE, a citizen of the United States, residing in Veehawken, Hudson county, in the State of NewJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for the Treatment of Refractory ater, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof. V

In Letters Patent of the United'States No. 820,524, granted May 15, 1906, there is shown and described an apparatus for adding to refractory water on its way to a boiler or other containing vessel or con ductor talc-like, or other material intended to modify the water and particularly to pre vent or break up the concretion of mineral constituents which, if the water is unmodifled; sometimes forms scale. The apparatus shown in said Letters Patent is designed to be operated by the flow of the water on its way to the boiler or other vessel or conductor, and operates satisfactorily where the flow is great enough to actuate the apparatus. Otherapparatus has been designed, especially for use where the 'flow ofv'ater is comparatively limited and the support for the apparatus is. in more or less constantv motion, as in the case of a locomotive, in which the movements of the support for'the a paratus are made to actuate the devices by which the desired material is added to the water.

The present invention has for its object to provide an apparatus for the same general purpose,"but adapted to meet other condi- ,tions of use and particularly to provide for the actuation of the devices which grind or reduce to a finely divided condition the matter to be added to the water and effect or permit the addition thereof to the water by 'means which are not dependent upon the movement of the support or directly upon the flow of the water. Such means, however, most conveniently comprise some moving part of the pump by which the Water is delivered? The invention will be more fully explained hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings in which it is illustrated as embodied in a convenient and practical form.

In the drawingsFigure 1 is a view in side elevation showing an ordinary reciprocating boilergfeed pump with the devices for v adding the desired material to the water in operative relation therewith. Fig. 2 is a. detail view in section on the plane indicated by the line 22 of Fig. 1. 3 is a detail view in section on the line indicated by the line 33 of Fig. 2.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in the drawings a reciprocating boiler feed pump, of ordinary construction, is

shown, the same comprising a steam cylinder a, a pump cylinder 6 with outlet 0 and usual valve gear cl operated by a piston rod which is not shown.

Connected with the out-let c of the pump is the apparatus by means of which the grinding or reduction and addition to the feed water of the talc-like or other desired material are accomplished. This apparatus may be of any construction suited to the con ditions of use. As shown it comprises a container e-for the material which is to be added to the water, a hopper f forming the lower portion of the container, and a suitable grinding or reducing and transferring roll or like device g mounted in the discharge outlet f of the hopper f, for reducing and transferring, in small quantities and in a finely divided condition, material from the bulk in a more or less coarse condition in the container 6 to the water chamber f through which the water flows from the outlet 0 of the pump.

The transferring and reducing or grinding roll 9 is fixed upon a shaft h mounted in suitable hearings in the walls of the water chamber f and is driven by means external to the water conduit. As shown the shaft it is provided with a ratchet wheel/[which is engaged by a pawl or dog 2' carried by an arm 2'. The latter is mounted to swing on the shaft in and is connected by a link 70 with an arm d of the valve gear cl. Operating connections might be established between the reducingand transferring device and any other moving part of the pump or pump mechanism, as may be most convenient under the conditions of use, and indeed the device might be actuated from any convenient source of power external to the water conduit or, in other words, by meansnot' actuated by the flow of water to or through the water treating apparatus and not directly dependent thereon. The use of the feed pump, however, is preferable, both on account of its convenience and because, with its use, attention to the operation of the transferring demeans adjacent said openin 1 the pump.

vice is unnecessary since the transferring device then operates only when the pump 1s 1n operation and Various modifications of details of construction and arrangement. will suggest themselves under different conditions of use and it is therefore understood that the invention is not limited to the precise construction and arrangement shown and described herein.

I claim as my invention.

1. In a device of the class described, a container adapted to receive material in a relatively coarse condition and having an outlet opening, means adjacent said opening for reducing the material contained therein to a finely divided condition, a conduit extending past said opening and said reducing means and into which the finely dividedmaterial is discharged, a pump for causing water. to flow through said conduit, and a connection between a moving part of said pum and said reducing mechanism whereby sa1d reducing mechanism is operated by and in unison with said pump. v

2.-- In a device of the class described, a vertically arranged container adapted to receive material ,in a relatively coarse condition and having an outlet opening at itslower end, for reducing the material'contained 1n sa1d receiver to a finely divided condition, a conduit extending past said opening and said reducing means and into which the finely divided material is discharged, a pump for forcing water through said conduit, and a connection between a movmg part of said pump and said reducing mechanism whereby sald'reducing mechanism is operated by and in unison with .said pump. 1

In a device of the class described, a vertically arranged container adapted to receive material in a relatively coarse condition and having an outlet opening at its lower end, a

in proportion to the speed of i dult extendlng past sa1d opemng and rotary grinding roll adjacent said openin for reducing the material contained in sai receiver to a finely divided condition, a con sai grinding roll and into which the finely divided material is discharged, a pump for forcing water through saidconduit, and a connection between a moving part of said pumpand said rotary grinding roll whereby said grinding roll is operated by and in unison with said pump.

. 4. In a device of the class described, a vertically arranged container adapted to receive material in "a relatively coarse condition and having an outlet opening at its lower end, a rotary grinding roll ad acent said opening for reducing the material contained in said receiver to a'finely divided condition, a conduit extending past said opening and said grinding roll and into which the finely'divided material is discharged, a pump having reciprocating parts and adapted to force water through said conduit, a reciprocating link operated from 'a moving part of said pump, and mechanism intermediate said reciprocatin link and said rotary grinding roll where y said grinding roll is operated by said link.

5. An apparatus for the treatment of refractory water etc., comprising a conduit for the water, a container for the material to be added to the water, a grindin roll for transferring the material in a fine y divided condition from the container to the water in the conduit, a feed pump and operative connec* tions includin a pawl anda ratchet wheel on the shaft 0? the grinding roll for actuating the grinding device through the movements of the pump.

This specificationsigned and witnessed this 27th day of March, A. D., 1907 JOSEPH SCHNEIBLE.

Signed in the presence of W- B. GREELEY, AMBROSE L. OSEEA. 

